Just before my last dive trip (to Cozumel about two weeks ago. Do I ever miss being warm.), I picked up the Mares Nemo dive computer.
Through research I had narrowed my choices down to the Suunto Mosquito and the Nemo. I'm just a recreational diver - with very little interest in extreme technical diving, so both looked like they would do what I needed. However, I'm a bit of a gadget freak, so even though most of the reviews and posts I read suggested that most people were coming down on the side of the slightly less expensive Mosquito, I liked the aesthetic of the Nemo so I went that way.
The computer worked great. I wear glasses, but don't have prescription lenses in my mask. I could still see it clearly underwater, and in a dark overhead Cenote environment the backlight worked great. I wasn't wearing gloves, but I had no problems working the buttons. The four buttons are actually setup on the extreme top, bottom, left and right edges of the watch, so that dramatically reduces the 'oops I pressed the wrong button' factor. For my last trip to San Andres, Colombia I had rented a Dacor Darwin computer, and for my purposes I actually found the Nemo generally easier to use and even easier to see underwater than the Darwin.
I was breathing air and the deepest dive of the trip went to 123 feet for a very short period of time so I ran out of air long before I hit the computers NDL. As a result, I can't speak to the nitrox or free diving features, and I didn't do any formal test so I have no idea about the conservatism of the algorithm.
Once I got back to the surface, using the logbook function was very intuitive. On the flight to Mexico I had worked through the quickstart guide in the instruction book, but I probably didn't need to. Playing with the buttons for a few minutes let me figure out everything I needed.
I'm not a small person, but I found I was able to wear it as a watch all week with no problems.
The only complaint I've got is how easily the face scratches. Somehow on the third day of diving I picked up a scratch about 1" long on the face near the top of the screen, coming straight down toward the middle of the screen. It doesn't affect the readability at all, but I at least hoped to get through the first trip scratch free. I don't remember bumping anything under water, so my guess is I got it on the ladder getting back onto the boat.
Through research I had narrowed my choices down to the Suunto Mosquito and the Nemo. I'm just a recreational diver - with very little interest in extreme technical diving, so both looked like they would do what I needed. However, I'm a bit of a gadget freak, so even though most of the reviews and posts I read suggested that most people were coming down on the side of the slightly less expensive Mosquito, I liked the aesthetic of the Nemo so I went that way.
The computer worked great. I wear glasses, but don't have prescription lenses in my mask. I could still see it clearly underwater, and in a dark overhead Cenote environment the backlight worked great. I wasn't wearing gloves, but I had no problems working the buttons. The four buttons are actually setup on the extreme top, bottom, left and right edges of the watch, so that dramatically reduces the 'oops I pressed the wrong button' factor. For my last trip to San Andres, Colombia I had rented a Dacor Darwin computer, and for my purposes I actually found the Nemo generally easier to use and even easier to see underwater than the Darwin.
I was breathing air and the deepest dive of the trip went to 123 feet for a very short period of time so I ran out of air long before I hit the computers NDL. As a result, I can't speak to the nitrox or free diving features, and I didn't do any formal test so I have no idea about the conservatism of the algorithm.
Once I got back to the surface, using the logbook function was very intuitive. On the flight to Mexico I had worked through the quickstart guide in the instruction book, but I probably didn't need to. Playing with the buttons for a few minutes let me figure out everything I needed.
I'm not a small person, but I found I was able to wear it as a watch all week with no problems.
The only complaint I've got is how easily the face scratches. Somehow on the third day of diving I picked up a scratch about 1" long on the face near the top of the screen, coming straight down toward the middle of the screen. It doesn't affect the readability at all, but I at least hoped to get through the first trip scratch free. I don't remember bumping anything under water, so my guess is I got it on the ladder getting back onto the boat.
